CVE-2016-6896
35Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendepss 38%
from disclosure to weapon0 days
Published on NVDJan 18
1st PoCAug 22
exploitation probability
38%top 2% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
2 public exploit(s)
Directory traversal vulnerability in the wp_ajax_update_plugin function in wp-admin/includes/ajax-actions.php in WordPress 4.5.3 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service or read certain text files via a .. (dot dot) in the plugin parameter to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php, as demonstrated by /dev/random read operations that deplete the entropy pool.
Affected products
n/a · n/apublic PoCs found — 2
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